The erudite Ivy Leaguer and conservative herald showered huge and scornful words on liberalism as he observed, abetted and cheered on the right's post-World War II rise from the fringes to the White House.

The Cambodian-born journalist whose harrowing tale of enslavement and eventual escape from that country's murderous Khmer Rouge revolutionaries in 1979 became the subject of the award-winning film "The Killing Fields".

The Academy Award-winning American film director, producer and actor is remembered not only for the films he directed such as "Out of Africa," "Tootsie," and "Absence of Malice," but also for his acting talents.

A political lifer who made a TV career of his passion with unrelenting questioning of the powerful and influential, died of a heart attack in the midst of a presidential campaign he'd covered with trademark intensity.

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